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formed to consult with agencies and to review their strategic plans and other activities.
P.L. 103-62 required GAO to take an active role in overseeing the implementation. The
agency has produced numerous reports and testimony that deal with such issues as
guidance to agencies about implementation, guidance to congressional staff about
assessing agency implementation, specific reports on funding and research assessment,
analyses of agencies' strategic plans, and guidance about assessing performance plans.4
The law required agencies to transmit to OMB annual plans and performance goals,
beginning with the FY1999 budget request. OMB submitted a government-wide
performance plan to Congress as part of the FY1999 budget; subsequently, individual
agency plans are supposed to be delivered to Congress. In March of the year 2000,
agencies will provide Congress with performance reports comparing actual performance
to goals. In March 2001, OMB will report to Congress on the results of performance
budgeting pilots and recommend whether or not performance budgets should be required
statutorily. In May 1997, OMB told Congress that it would postpone the required
performance budgeting pilots for a year (they were to begin with the FY1998 budget)
because agencies were focusing on strategic and performance plans and because agency
cost-accounting systems were inadequate. Now, performance budgeting pilot projects will
cover FY1999 to FY2000. OMB also said it was changing the law's implementation
schedule so "the required alternative budget presentation on performance budgeting would
now appear in the FY2000 President's budget, rather than the FY1999 budget."5
Joint hearings on implementation of the Results Act were held in the 104th Congress
by the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology of the
House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight together with the Senate
Committee on Governmental Affairs. During the 104th and 105th Congresses, hearings
dealing with implementation issues or with implementation in particular agencies have been
held by the House Committee on Science, the House Committee on Government Reform
and Oversight, the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs together with the Senate
Appropriations Committee, and other committees. In testimony before the House
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight on October 30, 1997, House Majority
Leader Armey said that at least 23 hearings were held on the Results Act since February
1997. The Chief Financial Officers Council,6 the National Academy of Public
Administration, and the Congressional Institute7 have produced guidance and initiated staff
training programs.4 Most of these reports and testimony are available on the Internet, via searches of GAO's
webpage at http://www.gao.gov/new.items/gpra/gpra.htm and at http://www.gao.gov/special.
Pubs/publist.htm.
5 Letter from Franklin D. Raines, Director, Office of Management and Budget to The
Honorable Fred Thompson, Chairman, Committee on Government Affairs, U.S. Senate, May 20,
1997.
6 Available at http://pula.financenet.gov:80/financenet/fed/cfo/gpra/gpra.htm.Available at http://server.conginst.org/conginst/results/.
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Knezo, Genevieve J. Government Performance and Results Act: Implementation During 1997 and Issues of Possible Concern, 105th Congress, Second Session, report, March 6, 1998; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metacrs658/m1/3/?q=%22executive+departments%22: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.